Paleo Biscuits

Paleo Biscuits are a turkey day fave made with 6 healthy ingredients. All you need to throw these together is a few minutes, some almond flour, coconut oil, egg, honey, salt, and baking soda. With so few ingredients, this recipe is far easier to make than the real thing!

I had so many requests from you guys asking me to make a gluten-free biscuit recipe, that I decided it would be great to share this one with you. I’ve been serving these at our Thanksgiving dinner for years now and it’s a family favorite.

We like Paleo Biscuits so much though that we make this easy recipe all year long. If you smother these biscuits in my Coconut Cream and top them with fresh strawberries, they make an amazing strawberry shortcake!

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Being on Paleo, I seem to make a lot of recipes that call for coconut oil. While I love coconut, I am feeling a little “overloaded” with coconut flavor. I use unrefined coconut oil. Would switching to refined coconut oil diminish the flavor of coconut providing a more “neutral” taste? Are there any negatives to using the refined version? Love, love, love these biscuits! Thanks for all you do!

New to your fabulous website. The biscuits were so easy to make, thank you for that. Although they don’t appear to have risen as high as the picture shows, the texture was amazing. I added 2 Tablespoons of nutritional yeast for a cheesy flavor. The honey I reduced to 1 teaspoon. Perfect!!

I’ve made these a few times with the straight recipe and love them. Tonight, I decided to change it up a little. I added in the Everything Bagel Seasoning from Trader Joes – a little inside and then put it on top before baking. They turned out great, so I had to pass on the tip!

Hi Elana! Thank you for this delicious recipe! Do you melt the coconut oil or just leave it at room temperature? Unfortunately, my biscuits didn’t rise and I’m wondering if it’s because of the melted coconut oil.

Rita, thanks for your comment. This recipe will work with melted or room temperature coconut oil. It sounds like the issue may be the brand of almond flour you used. Here are the ones that work in my recipes:

Thank you so much for your reply Elana! I did use the Honeyville brand (I bought it for the your Paleo 2.0 Bread). I replaced the celtic sea salt with himalayan salt and omitted the honey. Maybe those two changes caused the biscuits to fall flat? Either way they tasted great….just more of cookie consistency my first time making them. :)

Hi Elana! I absolutely love your page! Whenever I need a good recipe, your website is the first thing I go to. However, I have a good friend who has a nut allergy – do you have a biscuit recipe that uses coconut flour or another non-nut flour? Thank you!

You have become my go-to source for Keto recipes, as my husband and I are trying it for a month to see how it addresses some blood sugar issues. These were the first recipe I tried and they were amazing! I added some scrambled eggs and cheese for a grab and go sandwich for us to carry to work.

I just wanted to thank you for all of your delicious and easy recipes! My 7 year old daughter is gluten intolerant, and I have autoimmune issues and you have made my life so much easier. There isnt one recipe of yours that I’ve made that hasnt come out perfectly, including these biscuits I just tried! I dont think I could eat grain free without these recipes, you really seem to get us moms are busy and cant spend all day in the kitchen. Thank you !

Karen, to store the biscuits, after they’re baked let them cool overnight, then wrap in a paper towel, place in a plastic bag, and refrigerate for up to 1 week. Thanks so much for letting me know my website has changed your life :-)

I used almond oil instead of coconut and it worked just fine. Also, the slight sweetness from the applesauce made up for leaving out the honey. I did have to cook them several more minutes, but they were so good.

I patted my dough to 1/4-1/2″ and cut it into heart shapes with a cookie cutter :) cute and fun to eat

These are incredible! I made them for my kids as the “shortcake” in strawberry shortcake, and they loved them! And such a simple recipe to whip up quickly. I even skipped the rolling step and just made balls of the dough and flattened them a little on the parchment-lined baking sheet, and had great results. This recipe will definitely be a go-to in my kitchen. :)

I just found your site today and made these “delicious” biscuits. I have been fighting Candida for a year now and am not winning this battle. I was looking for things that I can cook up and just pull out to eat when needed. These are wonderful and will add another dimension to my diet. Thank you! I will definitely be experimenting with more of your recipes!

Hi Thea,
If you take the sugar and yeast out of your diet you should be able to control the abundant yeast in your body. It takes a good long two months for me when I have been bad and go off my diet to get it back in control. I had it so bad ( it comes out on my hands only ) that it starts out in dry red spots on my knuckles then get dry, red and flakey. Then if I let it go to long, goes into the blisters that itch like you want to cut your hands off! I have been dealing with Candida for a long time and if you have any questions Please ask me. I will help you with all I know. This is such a frustrating thing to have. Be well and remember, everything in moderation :)

Hi Gabrielle,
I started candida diet about 2 weeks ago. I was in holiday but I need to come back to work and I do not have enough energy. I do not feel better either. I wonder maybe it’s because anti fungal pills that I take like oregano oil, grapefruit seed extract and Caprylic acid. I bake coconut flour bread from candida diet site and I eat kale, broccoli, cabbage and spinach mainly. I drink nettle tea when I feel down or when I need tea. I am not doing good.
Before it I was in Paleo diet and I used to eat a lot of honey and cheese and sometimes rice and lots of bananas and other fruits but I had rash in my hands and dermatitis in my scalp and very bad allergy and digestive problems.

Sorry to hear about your struggle! I found out I had candida overgrowth a few months ago and started following a diet recommended by the candida diet website. But I adjusted my diet as I learned more about candida overgrowth and how it can relate to other conditions that need to be healed such as leaky gut, mercury toxicity, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), and a few others. You may want to look into these too especially if you’re having digestive problems (I hear you there!) After cutting out sugar even from honey and fruit and adjusting my diet to a mix of candida diet and a diet to heal leaky gut, I’ve had good changes although I’m not completely healed yet.

Also, Elana’s pantry is great for candida recipes! I’ve found that I can adjust recipes by substituting sweeteners for stevia or xylitol.

I just moved to 8,5000 feet in altitude – mountains of Colorado. Can’t wait to try this recipe…any idea how I adjust baking time for such an altitude difference. Hmm, maybe even ingredient variations…(thinking out loud). Maybe I need to do a google search. I’ve done a lot of your recipes in Seattle – thanks for such great food :)

Hi Shayna, I’m sorry to hear that the biscuits did not turn out correctly for you. The consistency can be different depending on the brands used when baking. Best results come from using the brands that are shown when clicking on the green words in the ingredient portion of the recipe. You also might want to take a look at this page helpful which provides information on the various types of almond flour that work in my recipes:

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